Evil Quotes

• The press, important as is its office, is but the servant of the human intellect, and its ministry is for good or for evil, according to the character of those who direct it. The press is a mill which grinds all that is put into its hopper. Fill the hopper with poisoned grain, and it will grind it to meal, but there is death in the bread.

  

  William Cullen Bryant
  • Important
  • Character
  • Office

• The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

  

  Joseph Conrad
  • Men
  • Belief
  • Source

• Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.

  

  John Henry Newman
  • Evil

• By his willingly renouncing self-defence, the Christian affirms his absolute adherence to Jesus, and his freedom from the tyranny of his own ego. The exclusiveness of this adherence is the only power which can overcome evil.

  

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  • Power
  • Freedom
  • Christian

• An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness.

  

  Clara Barton
  • Suffering
  • Movement
  • Selfish

• He who is bent on doing evil can never want occasion.

  

  Publilius Syrus
  • Evil

• Humans are born with a hard-wired morality: a sense of good and evil is bred in the bone. I know this claim might sound outlandish, but it's supported now by research in several laboratories.

  

  Paul Bloom
  • Good
  • Evil

• What does God hate or punish except self-will? Let self-will cease, and there will be no hell. On what does that fire feed except on self-will?

  

  Bernard of Clairvaux
  • God
  • Hate
  • Self-will

• Yes, I play this evil, mean character Victoria in 'Baywatch.' It is so much fun. I didn't want my first film in America to be just another role.

  

  Priyanka Chopra
  • Character
  • America
  • Fun

• Years ago, when James Bulger was murdered, every newspaper front page was talking about evil. At that point, having suppressed it for years, I remembered when I was four or five, I tried to kill my own brother.

  

  Tilda Swinton
  • Brother
  • Four
  • Newspapers

• The face of evil is always the face of total need.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Evil
  • Needs
  • Faces

• He is indeed a creature of evil; but so are you, and so am I.

  

  Gene Wolfe
  • Evil

• Cuz this is what happens when bad meets evil We hit the trees till we look like Vietnamese people

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • People
  • Looks
  • Tree

• But at sixteen the conscience rarely gnaws So much, as when we call our old debts in At sixty years, and draw the accounts of evil, And find a deuced balance with the devil.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Evil
  • Balance
  • Conscience

• I may be permitted, like the doctors, to cure a greater evil by a less, for I shall not fall seriously in love with the young widow, I think, nor she with me - that's certain - but if I find a little pleasure in her society I may surely be allowed to seek it; and if the star of her divinity be bright enough to dim the lustre of Eliza's, so much the better, but I scarcely can think it.

  

  Anne Bronte
  • Society
  • Doctors
  • Widow

• A lot of people say colonialism was 'evil' or whatever, but what have they really done with Africa since we gave it back to them? I don't think it should be considered 'racist' to admit maybe ending apartheid did more harm than good in South Africa.

  

  Zach Braff
  • People
  • Good
  • Done

• I explain how America hatred and Jew hatred are INDEMIC to Modern Liberalism and delve deeper into why it is the otherwise good and decent people will INVARIABLY side with evil over good, wrong over right and the behaviors that lead to failure over those that lead to success.

  

  Evan Sayet
  • Behavior
  • Modern
  • Hatred

• All errors which a man is likely to commit against advice are far outweighed by the evil of allowing others to constrain him for his good.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Evil
  • Advice
  • Errors

• Her grief was so big and wild it terrified her, like an evil beast that had erupted from under the floorboards.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Evil
  • Grief

• The problem of evil is raised more often by spectators of life than the actual combatants. You will hardly ever find that the great sufferers are the great skeptics.

  

  James Stewart
  • Problem
  • Joy
  • Suffering

• Not from the stars do I my judgement pluck, And yet methinks I have astronomy. But not to tell of good or evil luck, Of plagues, of dearths, or season's quality; Nor can I fortune to brief minutes tell ... Or say with princes if it shall go well.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Science
  • Quality
  • Luck

• A man who knows a thing, who is aware of a given danger, and sees the possibility of a remedy with his own eyes, has the duty and obligation, by God, not to work 'silently,' but to stand up before the whole public against the evil and for its cure.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • God
  • Danger
  • Cure

• If they weren't so dangerous and destructive, one could smile and pat the Modern Liberal on the head and tell him how cute he is and go on about the business of being an adult. But he is dangerous and destructive, with the True Believer's very purpose being the total destruction of everything that God and science-most obviously Western Civilization-has ever created. ...The Modern Liberal will invariably and, in fact, inevitably side with evil over good, wrong over right and the behaviors that lead to failure over those that lead to success.

  

  Evan Sayet
  • Purpose
  • Dangerous
  • Behavior

• I'm no angel if that's what you thought you found. I was just the victim of a man that let me down.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Men
  • Found
  • Angel

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